(Rajdeep Mukherjee) AJAX promises to be the technology of choice for building fast and responsive web applications. AJAX was primarily designed and developed with the intent of addressing the challenges faced for developing high performance web applications. Although Ajax is independent of the techn

(Martin Brown) Both mashups and Ajax are now firmly entrenched in the Web landscape. Put them together and you have the makings for Rich Web applications. This article explains the Rich Web Application Backplane, currently a W3C Note, which is designed to bring standardization to the field, proving

(Francis Wong) Lately, you may have been hearing more and more about Ajax and begun to wonder how it could be beneficial to your business’s web application development projects. First, it is important to start with an understanding of this type of web programming. While the concept is not new – it h

(Nicholas Chase) XML validation enables you to create complex rules that define acceptable data. But they’re no good to anybody unless you use them. In this tip, you learn to use the XML Schema Standard Type Library to simplify the process of requiring formatted data such as e-mail addresses and tel

(Frank Coyle) The previous article in this series on VoiceXML introduced menus and forms, the two kinds of dialog elements used in building voice applications. Menus are handy when we have a set of predefined options to present to our users. Forms are more flexible, enabling us to collect multiple i

(George Lawton) In recent months Silverlight has emerged as a possible challenger both to Flash and to Ajax in the realm of Rich Internet Application development. (R)

(Dennis Sosnoski) Even though XML message exchange is at the core of Web services, most Web service applications aren’t concerned with XML. Instead, these applications want to exchange business data that’s specific to the application. XML is, in this case, just a format used to represent the busines

(Edmon Begoli) It is no coincidence that AJAX and RESTful web services gained the attention of developers in their respective stages of infancy. Both technologies emerged during times that were dominated by cumbersome enterprise technologies. They gained popularity because of the freshness, innovati

(Ben Martin) By bringing together an XQuery engine and a virtual filesystem you can use a familiar query language to access relational databases, Berkeley db4 databases, kernel filesystems, and network files as well as XML. libferris, at its, core is a virtual filesystem allowing many different data

(Subal Mishra) Input validation ensures a user not only enters or selects values when required but also enters appropriate and correctly formatted values. Any user input form/window that support insert, update, delete or any calculated functions are all common scenarios where input validation should